Two hundred
chaluzim
(emigrants) from the Ukraine, preparing to enter Palestine, are held up in Galatz, Romania, and told they must pay a $3,200 fee.
50 years ago Nov. 29, 1946
The U.S. Department of Justice has issued has many as 1,900 refugees emergency visas.
25 years ago Dec. 3, 1971
An actor impersonating Adolf Hitler on the streets of Munich during the filming of a television play says he was surrounded by people who wanted to embrace him and shake his hand.
10 years ago Dec. 5, 1986
The first session of the trial for alleged Nazi war criminal Ivan Demjanjuk, accused of operating the gas chambers at Treblinka, begins in Jerusalem.